Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . As Crown Publishing predicted, readers eagerly anticipated Michelle Obama’s Becoming. Autobiography and memoir are best-selling categories because virtually everyone enjoys learning about
Month: August 2020
Russell Crowe stars in “Unhinged.” Solstice Studios Actors covet those times when they stand alone on a stage, sharing their craft with a captive audience. Films debuting in movie theaters rarely get an opportunity for a solo. Typically, one or two new movies vie for an audience’s attention along with holdover films from previous weeks.
Peter Madoff in 2002. Getty Images The younger brother of infamous financier and Ponzi swindler Bernard Madoff was released from federal custody on Thursday after serving about nine years of a 10-year sentence. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed in an email that Peter Madoff was released from home confinement on Aug. 13 after being transferred
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone worked some magic in China on Friday with Warner Bros’ 3D reissue conjuring $4.6M. This is by far the biggesst single-day gross since cinemas resumed operations, overtaking the opening of WB’s earlier re-release of Chirstopher Nolan’s Interstellar by 66% (though that film bowed on a Sunday). Overall, China’s fourth
WASHINGTON — A startup formed by rocket engineers from the German space agency DLR is targeting late 2022 for the first flight of a small launch vehicle designed around hybrid engines. HyImpulse is developing a three-stage rocket capable of sending 500 kilograms to a 400-kilometer low Earth orbit. The 40-person company is bankrolled by Rudolf
Former U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the service during the funeral of late U.S. Congressman John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives who died July 17, at Ebeneezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. July 30, 2020. Alyssa Pointer | Reuters Former President Barack
Atlanta duo EarthGang have a new song on the soundtrack for Madden NFL 21, the latest installment in EA SPORTS’ long-running video game franchise. Their contribution is called “Powered Up.” Listen below and scroll down for the full soundtrack. In June, the duo joined with J.I.D, 6LACK, and Mereba for the Spillage Village song “End
The Fat Radish Source: Steve Freihon The Fat Radish was supposed to celebrate its tenth anniversary in October. But now, after months of uncertainty about its future, the restaurant known for its farm-to-table British food is shutting its doors forever, joining the scores of New York restaurants that have decided to close permanently. Operating a
Miley Cyrus and Cody Simpson’s big romance didn’t quite make it a year. TMZ reports the two have called it quits. According to TMZ’s multiple sources, they split quietly within the last few weeks. The reason for their split isn’t clear at this point. Cyrus and Simpson were first seen kissing in Los Angeles grocery
Weezer has released a new song and music video from the Bill & Ted Face the Music soundtrack. The song, titled Beginning Of The End (Wyld Stallyns Edit) is going to be part of the very musical return of Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves as Bill and Ted for the first time in nearly three
There are high hopes for Lovecraft Country, premiering on HBO this Sunday. Based on the book of the same name, the story blends racism and literature and horror, and although it probably shouldn’t work, it does. Part of that could be due to the producers, Misha Green (showrunner), Jordan Peele, and J.J. Abrams, and the
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Remakes, reboots, and sequels, oh my! There have been six Transformers films and somehow Hollywood still wants more. It’s not just the
The highly anticipated new horror film “The Bleeding Dark” directed by Jason Hawkins (American Bully, Tuesday Never Comes) and produced by Joseph Kelly (Clown Motel, A Star Is Born, Bumblebee) with Angela Joseph( Clown Motel, Blind, 13 Fan Boy) has just launched it’s official KICKSTARTER campaign. The film stars Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist) with special
Chicago indie band The PondHawks have just released their highly anticipated new single “Invisible Stranger” worldwide. The PondHawks have been making chart-topping music since 2010. They have a fan base of over 600,000 and have repeatedly topped the global Indie chart on Reverbnation’s 4 million artists platform. Several of their releases have made the Grammy
The Trump administration on Thursday weakened Obama-era regulations designed to reduce climate-warming methane gas emissions from oil and gas fields. The Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule, which has been in progress for over a year, would eliminate federal requirements for oil and gas companies to monitor and repair methane leaks from pipelines, storage facilities and
Would you use a pick-up line composed by a machine-learning algorithm? Perhaps something like You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, which is a machine’s attempt at an amorous icebreaker and the title of a book by Janelle Shane. Shane is an optical engineer with a blog that chronicles the absurdities that are
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures will be hosting a high-end dual big screen drive-in experience on the Culver City, CA lot starting this Friday, Aug. 14. They are the first major studio ever to turn their lot into a drive-in. The drive-in will be located in the studio’s Thalberg parking lot and showcase several Sony classic catalog
The GEM 63XL motors will fly on ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket in 2021. WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman on Aug. 13 completed the first qualification test of a new strap-on rocket motor developed for United Launch Alliance’s future vehicle Vulcan Centaur, the company said. The static firing of the 63-inch-diameter graphite epoxy motor known as GEM
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